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Archive | July, 2009

PhotoKeys for iPhone

31. July 2009

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: PhotoKeys for iPhone [iTunes App Store link] is an interesting app. In short, it turns your iPhone into a small touch screen to access the Photoshop tool palette—Move, Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand and so on—as well as other common functions such as Copy, Paste, Undo, Save, etc. You get [...]

80’s Style Design Using Photoshop

29. July 2009

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The 80’s have always had an iconic impact on Pop Culture. I have been seeing a lot of 80’s inspired designs on the internet, but never found a tutorial. So, here’s a simple tutorial inspired by the 80’s. This is just a basic design to get you started, and [...]

Arsenal: T-Shirt Templates, Vol. 2

28. July 2009

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This second volume of the Go Media Arsenal T-Shirt Templates comes in response to popular demand and features natural, hand-created drop shadows & HDR photography for smoother shading layers. Files are in PSD format w/ layers and masks, pixel dimensions are 1200×1300. Preset Shirt Colors Photos of both Fronts and Backs Flat and loosely-wrinkled versions Easy to [...]

Photoshop Quick Tip: Finding Layers Quickly

27. July 2009

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Photoshop Quick Tip: Finding Layers Quickly

Quickly find the Photoshop layer an object is located on by enabling an option on the Move tool.

Polishing Your PSD: 3 Friendly Reminders for Front-End Sanity

24. July 2009

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Polishing Your PSD: 3 Friendly Reminders for Front-End Sanity

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: So you’re a visual designer who wants to suck up to a certain front-end hat guy. Wouldn’t it be a great gesture to clean-house and organize your file so the slicer doesn’t ‘slip’ and accidentally butcher your brilliant work? Some firms carefully distingush the roles of visual designer and [...]

Photoshop Tip: Sharpening with Photoshop’s High-Pass Filter

22. July 2009

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Photoshop Tip: Sharpening with Photoshop’s High-Pass Filter

Need to give an image a little boost? Whether it needs a bit more contrast, or needs to be sharper, Photoshop's High Pass filter can add a dynamic result without spending too much time.

Lineform 1.5.1 (Mac Vector Graphics Software) Released + Discount Code

21. July 2009

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Lineform 1.5.1 (Mac Vector Graphics Software) Released + Discount Code

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Freeverse has just released Lineform 1.5.1. Lineform is a low-cost vector graphics software program for the Mac, for those designers out there on a budget. Here’s the new stuff: Fixed Undo to include function names Fixed text fill editing bug Fixed reflection filter color bug Improved layer locking Fixed [...]

10 PC Productivity Tools for Graphic Designers

20. July 2009

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10 PC Productivity Tools for Graphic Designers

A great roundup of 10 excellent time-saving utilities for PC-based graphic designers. These run the gamut from graphics software specific tools to general Windows utilities any creative types out there will find useful for their day-to-day PC usage. Boost your productivity and have more time to create with this extensive list from Go Media's Adam Wagner.

Win A Free License For Photoshop Brush Management App Brush Pilot!

17. July 2009

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Go Media is proud to offer up 3 licenses for the awesome new Photoshop brush manager for OS X, Brush Pilot. Download the demo, give it a whirl and let us know in the comments what your favorite Brush Pilot feature is. We’ll be choosing winners at random from this posts’s comments. Winners will be [...]